What is the First Year Journal?
The First Year Journal is a project that encourages parents and caregivers to understand the baby’s development, from cognitive and motor processes to socio-emotional and language development. The purpose is to create a light and easy way, in which you, when selecting the photos, can see the evolution of all phases of your baby’s growth. You can make the diary to keep as a souvenir for yourself, or to give as a gift to relatives and friends, who did not actively participate in the baby’s development, in order to show them the evolution of each stage of its development.
Ilza continues her professional journey providing specialized care for babies and developing skills that help parents feel autonomous in the perception and development of their children.
The importance of recording your baby’s first year
Because, by answering the questionnaire, you will discover how your baby is developing in the socio-emotional, motor, thinking and language areas. This way, you will closely monitor all the physical and cognitive changes during the first year of his life. Consequently, this monitoring will serve as the basis for all future development of your baby’s life.
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About the psychologist
Ilza O’Donnel
Ilza O’Donnel is a child psychologist and founder of the project “First Year Journal”. Brazilian and trained in psychology since 1989, Ilza dedicated her professional years to closely observing, applying and developing specialized techniques in the stages of baby development.
Upon moving to the United States in 1994, Ilza participated in in-depth studies and research on motor, cognitive, language and socio-emotional development during the baby’s first year of life, resulting in the creation of the First Year Journal, the only which records physical and cognitive characteristics from birth and during the first year of life, in a chronology of facts and photos illustrating the great moments in your baby’s life.
